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REPORT OF A CASE

JAY FRANK SCHAMBERG, M.D.; MALCOLM J. HARKINS, V.M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1925;11(3):339-353.

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We report the results of the study of a case of acnitis, with a detailed account of animal inoculations and cultural bacteriologic findings.

Smears made from the purulent exudate from an open lesion revealed the presence of staphylococci and a gram-negative bacillus. It is interesting to note that these same findings were reported to us by a laboratory in another city where smears had been examined some months earlier.

REPORT OF CASE

Miss S. K., aged 20, consulted us Oct. 3, 1923, with an eruption on the face of four months' duration. She was a nurse in a hospital, and she feared that from accidental contact with some patient she had possibly acquired a syphilitic infection.

About June 1, the patient developed some reddish macular spots on the chin. These slowly increased in size, and new lesions appeared. Subjective symptoms were absent. The patient did not observe any departure from . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

From the Research Institute of Cutaneous Medicine.

Footnotes
Read at the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Minneapolis, June, 1924.

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